The Orchid School
Baner
Syllabus Overview 2015- 2016
Std VIII
Subject : English
Month
Lesson /
Content / Name of the Book
Expected Learning Objective
Literature
Ch.1 Anne bakes a cake
• Read and comprehend the lesson
Activities/FAs Planned
Understanding and appreciation of the poem
Poem -In the bazaars of Hyderabad
MARCH
-APRIL
Companion
Unit 1
use the lesson based as a base to relate to the companion
lesson
Language
Identifying main points, analysing,
interpreting, inferring and evaluating
information
worksheets on pronouns
Recap of usage and application of
Parts of Speech, Nouns and Pronouns
notice writing on sheets
in groups based
• Notice writing,
Grammar
• - Revision of Parts of Speech,
Nouns and Pronouns
Literature
Ch. 2 Saving the Gharial
Ch. 3 Gogols first day
Read and comprehend the lesson
Infer and understand the need for bondin
Poem - The Lost dances of Crane
Companion
• Unit 2
• Unit 3
Understanding and appreciation of the poem
• Identifying poetic devices used, like personification,
metaphor etc.
• Writing a description of a person in a paragraph
JUNE
Language
• Informal,Formal letter
• Writing- Bio Sketch
• Narrative Paragraph writing
Language
• Story writing - writing in role, Sequencing
• Notice writing, Message Writing
Letter to the editor
• Paragraph writing
Group activity - expressing and arguing a point of view
then writing on it
FA 1
JULY
Grammar
• Adjectives,
Determiners, Prepositions
Usage & application of adjectives
Literature
Ch. 4 The last class
Read and comprehend the lesson
worksheet for greammar
Quiz activities
JULY
Literature
Ch. 5 The Narayanpur incident
Read and comprehend the lesson
• Identifying main events chronologically
Debate
Companion
• Unit 4 ,5
• Identifying main points, analysing,
interpreting, inferring and evaluating
information
email writing group activity
Understanding and appreciation of the poem
• Identifying poetic devices used, like personification,
metaphor etc.
• Comparision with other poems by the same poet
•
Poem - Unfolding bud
Language
•Diary writing
• Essay writing
dialoque group activity
• Informal letter
• Diary Entry
• Writing a poem
Usage of verbs in all written work
Grammar
• Verbs 1 - Present, Past and Future Tenses
AUG
Grammar
• Verbs 2 - Finite & non-finite
Literature
Ch.6 Can animals reason
Read and comprehend the lesson
To enjoy a literary piece and sensitize students towards
the treatment of animals
FA 2
Literature
Ch. 7 Coming home to Delhi
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
• Drawing conclusions from the group activity and
written/oral report
Poem The Elephant and the Tragopan
• Understanding and appreciation of the poem
• Identifying poetic devices used, like personification,
metaphor etc.
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
SEPT
Grammar
•Preposition
Companion
• Unit 6
• Unit 7
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
• Drawing conclusions from the group activity and
written/oral report
• Usage of correct tenses
Language
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
• Writing a Speech
• Usage of correct tenses
Usage of prepositions in all written work
prepositions worksheet
SA 1
• Phrasal verbs
use of phrasal verbs for better sentence formation
• Adverbs and kinds of adverbs
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
OCT
Literature
Ch. 8 Owen vs. Master Race
Literature
Ch 9 A night to forget
Literature
Ch 9 A night to forget
NOV
Companion
• Unit 7 , 8 ,9
worksheets on adevrbs
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
Develop conversational and presentation skills
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
• Develop conversational and presentation skills
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
• Develop conversational and presentation skills
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
comic strip using modal verbs
NOV
Poem - Where the mind is without fear
Language
• Dialogue Writing
Understanding and appreciation of the poem
• Identifying poetic devices used, like personification,
metaphor etc.
Dialogue completion
Dialoque group activity
FA 3
Grammar • Modals
Grammar
• Structure of sentences,
• The Phrase and the Clause
DEC
JAN
Identification and understanding the
usage of modals in given samples
of writing
Identification and understanding the usage of clauses in
given samples of writing
Literature
Ch.10 Darjeeling
Poem -A poison tree
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
Companion
• Unit 8
Language
• E mail writing
Write an email on a given topic and
send it to the teacher
Grammar
• Sentences - Simple, Complex and
Compound
Understand the meaning and usage
of relatives, connectors, comparisions
and conditionals in a sentence
JAN
Clauses and types of clauses
Usage of different kinds of clauses
Adjective Clause
Usage of different kinds of clauses
Noun Clause,
Usage of different kinds of clauses
Adverb Clause,
Literature
Ch. 11 Bodyline
Poem All the worlds a stage
Usage of different kinds of clauses
Clauses PPT
FA 4
FEB
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
Debate
Companion
Unit - 9
Unit - 10
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
Literature
Ch 12 The merchant of Venice
Companion
Unit - 11
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring
and evaluating information
• Author review - Shakespeare.
Language
• Newspaper report
• Debate writing
Narrating events in a logical sequence
Grammar
• Direct-indirect Speech
• Combination of Sentences
Writing in direct-indirect speech
Grammar
• Active and Passive Voice
• Punctuation
• Phrases and idioms"
Usage of Active & Passive Voice
MAR
"Companion
• Unit 12
Language
• Summarising
• Article writing based on Picture
composition
revision
SA 2
Listen, read and comprehend lesson
• Conduct a survey/ interview on a given topic
• Identifying main points, analysing, interpreting, inferring and write an article based on it
and evaluating information